Garbage can



Aug. 19, 1930 I c; JAMES 1,773,680

GARBAGE CAN Filed July 17. 1928 m i? w gwue'ntoz i atented Aug. 1%, 1939 CORINNE JAMES, 013 HOUSTON, TEXAS GARBAGE CAN Application filed July 17,

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a garbage can.

One object of the invention is to provide a a garbage can having a removable cover, and equipped with means releasably secured to the cover and adapted to hold said cover gainst displacement. p

The type of garbage can now commonly used has a removable cover but no means for holding the cover in place so that when the can is filled the cover may be displaced by dogs and the like, and the contents scattered.

It is tie object of this inventionto provide a garbage can having a removable cover but which is equipped with means for holding the cover against displacement, said means being releasable when it is desired to remove the cover to fill or empty the can.'

lVith the above and other objects in view this invention has particular relation to certain novel features of construction arrangement of parts and use, an example of which is given in. this specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the can partly in section, and

Figure 2 shows a plan view thereof.

i el erring now more particularly to the drawings, wherein like numerals of reference designate similar parts in each of the figures the numeral 1 designates the can fitted onto the upper end of which is the removable cover 2, which is equipped with the grip 3 for handling the cover. The can is provided, with the usual bail i by means 0:5 which it may be handled. Secured to the outer side oi the can are the ears 5, 5, having the bearinqs 6, 6 therethrough, Slidable in said bearings are the rods 7, 7. whos uppe ends are formed into hooks 8, 8 whose free ends are downwardly turned and adapted to titthrough the bearings 9, 9, in the cover. The lower ends of these rods carry the weights 1O, 10, which normally hold the hooks in engagement with the cover when engaged therewith.

lVhen the can is filled thehooks 8 are engaged through the bearings 9 and the weights 10 will hold them in such engagement and are suliicient to prevent the removal of the 192s.- Serial No. 293,352.

cover by such animals as mentioned. When it is desired to remove the cover the hooks 8 may be elevated and disengaged from the cover and then turned to one side and lowered as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1. The cover may then be removed and the can filled or emptied and the cover replaced and secured thereon as hereinabove' explained.

While I have shown what I now consider to be the preferred form of the invention it is obvious that mechanical changes maybe made therein and equivalents substituted for the parts shown and I reserve the right to make such changes ene substitutions as maybe found desirade and such may be comprehended with the principle of the invention.

' lVhat I claim is z- A device of the character described comprising a can having external vertical bearings, a removable cover on the can having bearingshoolrs vertically movable in said can bearings, and adapted to engage in said.

cover bearings, and a weight carried by the lower end ofeach hook.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

CORINNE JAMES. 7 

